I'm pleased you like my PPT, I didn't do it myself though, I sent it away to be done. It might have to go back though as the lacquer hasn't hardened properly and is still quite soft and is beginning to mark

the guy that did it thinks that he had some duff lacquer. He's not going to be using it again, he's changing over to cashew lacquer. There's no problem with him sorting the saya out, he only lives an hour away from me so I can take it straight to him. I've got to go and see him soon anyway as I'm having the tsuka on my Musashi Miyamoto Daito 'battle wrapped' as soon as I've sorted out some new menuki for it.

The tanto saya does look stunning though, it's done in full nashiji lacquer.

The custom work I had done is,

full suite of horn fittingsfull nashiji lacquerdark brown tsuka itogolden brown sageo (which I've removed for the moment)fuchi/kashira in blackened steel - waves pattern24k gold small water dragon menukithe original rayskin (same) has been changed to some of a better quality.

question for you chris you got any of the new raptor range from chen yetjust got the new unokubi zukuri katana today along with a very nice tinker piercebroadsword and cold steel willow leaf sabre/dao long time since i treated myselfso went and had a splurge nice kit theremick

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the blade master wrote:question for you chris you got any of the new raptor range from chen yetjust got the new unokubi zukuri katana today along with a very nice tinker piercebroadsword and cold steel willow leaf sabre/dao long time since i treated myselfso went and had a splurge nice kit theremick